Parents Guide for
Jaws (1975) More at IMDbPro »

A woman goes skinny-dipping during the opening scene (we see her naked silhouette as she runs along the beach and while she is in the water) although no actual nudity is visible. A brief song about a girl who lost her virginity at 15.

Quint tells Hooper to "stop playing with yourself", which can be a double entendre.

In the beginning, a girl is attacked by a shark. No blood or any violence but the sounds used in this very violent.

A boy's hand is bleeding. It's barely violent and isn't any bit intense though.

A boy is splashing blood in the water.

A man is looking at a few violent images. We see a picture of a bleeding shark and a few images of injured humans from shark attacks.

A severed arm is shown. Not much blood though.

A dead shark is shown with blood in its mouth.

A man cuts a dead shark open causing white liquid to come out of its stomach and a few things that it had eaten that hadn't been digested yet. Two of the items that come out of its stomach is a severed fish head and the other severed part of its body.

Two shots of a severed head shown through a hole of a sunken boat for a couple of seconds. No blood though but this scene is very frightening and surprising.

A severed leg is shown. (showing a lot of blood in the water.)

Chum is being used as bait for the shark in three scenes.

A man has his hand cut by rope making his hand bloody.

A man is in a cage underwater and a shark attacks the cage and makes the man injure himself causing blood to show up (barely any blood is shown though. You can hardly see any).

A man is bitten by a shark causing his chest to bleed and him to spew blood out of his mouth. This scene is very graphic and frightening. Not reccomended for young children.

The shark is injured by the men on the boat many times. Gunshots and stabbing is used on the shark causing it to bleed.

A shark explodes with blood spraying everywhere.

Strong language for a PG movie(e.g. "sh-t," "g-ddamn," "b-tch") is frequently used throughout the film, as well as several instances of mild profanity. One mild drug reference.

Drinking and smoking are shown throughout the film.

The scenes with the shark are usually very intense, the shark looks frightening.

The sudden appearance of a severed head is done for shock value and may upset younger viewers.

The opening scene is very frightening. (The first scene was even #1 on a "Scariest Movie Moments" countdown)Other scenes are also frightening like the severed leg in the water, the Kitner boy's death, and Quint's death.

Although the film is rated PG, some of the above content is very intense and violent. Today, this film would probably be rated at the very least PG-13.

This film is actually catergorized as a horror. No children should see this film. It can be very realistic to some. The content may suggest the rating of "Jaws" should be R